>> clayton: more regulations. has the u.s. gone from the land of the free to the land of the regulated? >> gretchen: happy 4th to the of two you, thanks for filling in. have a great independence day. >> clayton: see you, everyone. >> egypt now squarely under military control less than 48 hours after a coup toppled the country's government. the military seizing power from its first democratically elected leader in only one year. i'm gregg jarrett for bill hemmer. happy independence day. heather: i'm heather childers for martha mccallum. morsi sr. is under house arrest. this is video from last night.

you can see flags waving and people chanting. gregg: conor powell is streaming live from cairo, egypt. what's the reaction today? >> reporter: live is beginning to return to normal in cairo. it seems like a normal city again. there is a crowd beginning to gather in tahrir square. outside of tahrir square there are reports of violence, clashes between the military and between pro-morsi supporters. 14 people were killed last night. hundreds more injured. the military arrested several top leaders of the muslim brotherhood party and issued warrants for several hundred more. the military denied this was a coup. but this is clearly a military coup with the support of secular and non-brotherhood egyptians. the brotherhood and stunned and

angry. they are trying to figure out what to do next. we are hearing reports of peaceful protests. but no one thick that will be their only response. morsi supporters have vowed to die for him. vowed to die for islam. >> reporter: talk to us about what we could see in the coming days. there is great fear islamist fundamentalists may decide to turn to acts of violence and terror. >> the current islamist constitution was us spend. adly mansour was sworn in. he says he wants to hold the line in the spirit of the revolution. the head of the nuclear agency is a front runner to lead a transitional government. but his name being floated shows

problems egypt could have in the future. he's completely unacceptable to the his amic groups that from very powerful in egypt. it's unlikelith he will be accepted by the islamic groups. there will probably be some violence going forward. but the idea that egypt is going to escape without any violence seems fairly unrealistic. heather: a little background on the new interim president. adly mansour is the head of the supreme constitutional court. he's a lawyer by trade. graduating from the university of cairo in 1970.

he spent 7 years as a legal advisor in saudi arabia for the egyptian ministry of commerce. gregg: while egyptians are celebrating the ouster of president morsi, it's unclear how long those celebrations are going to last. this is november of 2011 in tahrir square showing the same military brutally cracking down on protesters at the time. those demonstrators were quite upset that the military had seized control of the government after the ouster of the former president hosni mubarak. heather: president obama addressing the situation in egypt saying the u.s. is committed to the democratic process and he's concerned about the egyptian military's decision to remove president morsi and us spntd constitution. last night he said this.

this was going on. demonstrators gathered saying that they are upset with the way the obama administration has responded to the situation. >> the white house are supporting morsier to -- you know, the former president. they threatened our army that if they don't support morsi they will take the aid away. oh, well, they can have it. but we want our freedom back and we want our country back. heather: steve centanni is live for us in washington. how is the u.s. characterizing this military action in egypt. >> reporter: u.s. officials pointedly not calling it a coup. if they did that would suspend the aid to egypt.

after word came down yesterday of the military action in egypt and the removal of the president mohamed morsi. in a statement the president said we are deeply concerned about the decision of the egyptian armed forces to remove president morsi and suspend the egyptian constitution. i call on the egyptian military to move quickly and responsibly to return full authority back to a democratically elected civilian president as soon as possible. the u.s. position was articulated by the state department. >> we are on the side of the egyptian people. we want their voices to be heard. we want all sides to engage with each other and work through a political solution. but it's not the place of the u.s. to take a role or take a side. >> reporter: so far no on-camera comment from the president about egypt. heather: what about our embassy

personnel in egypt? >> reporter: there is a danger. the u.s. state department advised all non-he accepting embassy workers to go home where no military airlift is being provide. the state department travel warning said the u.s. department of state strongly urges all citizens to avoid all demonstrations in egypt. a travel warning says the airport is open and commercial flights are operating. with the diplomats there are no special sites being operated to help american travelers leave the country. gregg: two leading u.s. senators are visiting troops in afghanistan today. senators mccain and lindsey

graham attend an enlistment ceremony for soldiers. the president says the war will be over by late 2014. heather: today's 4th of july celebrations in boston will be the city's largest gathering since the marathon terror attack in april. they are ramping up security all across the city. the marathon bombers originally considered independence day for the attack. it usually attracts a crowd of 500,000. police presence will be heady and some officers will be uncover. thrg there will be come-sniffing dogs and bag checks and a text

line to supply information about a terror plot. gregg: many towns are pulling the plug on the fireworks display because of budget issues. but importantly weather conditions. several western states battling those wildfires are concerned fireworks would make the problems a whole lot worse. and these shows can cost up to $100,000. some communities are cancelling them for obvious financial reasons. they are in a jobless recovery and a lot of community are financially strapped. heather: a time to pull people together and be an american. gregg: hot dogs are cheap. heather: and sparklers aren't too expensive. have you heard about this, talking about money and wasteful spending. the u.s. state department taking

heat after spending $630,000 in a bid to make facebook friend and getting them to like the department's post. the tactic worked for a little while but it eventually fizzled out. people weren't that interested in the material being posted by the agency. gregg: the money comes from taxpayers. please like our particular branch of government. heather: you could have spent that money on fireworks. gregg: egyptians reacting to a second revolution in as many years as the army removes president morsi from power. should u.s. aid to egypt continue? we are talking about $1.6 billion a year.

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gregg: the missing brother of a colorado u.s. senator has been found dead on a weir hiking route. he vanished while on a solo hiking trip. search teams found the 61-year-old's body in open terrain. senator udall says it appears his brother died of natural causes. heather: the white house reviewing aid to egypt. millions were cheering in the street and people also gathering outside the white house. in a statement the white house said we are deeply concerned by

the decision of the egyptian armed forces to egyptian constitution. if i now call on the egyptian military to move quickly and responsibly to return full authority back to a democratically elected civilian government as soon as possible. k.t. macfarland joins us now. each of those words very closely scripted. because it makes a difference how the u.s. respond to this. what wes. whether we call it a coup or some are calling it a correction. called for by the citizens of egypt. >> this is all about the money at this point. if the administration says this is a coup that triggers let sanctions. that means we can't give them $1.6 billion. also money talks because you want to see what the saudis do. the point you made earlier where you said the interim president

adly mansour has close ties to saudi arabia. that's important because the saudis have been the country that steps in to bankroll poor arab countries in trouble. egypt is in trouble economically it is headed for the cliffs. there will be food riots about it end of the year because egypt doesn't have the foreign currency it needs to import wheat. without u.s. aid and without saudi arabia stepping up with a big check those egyptians are in trouble and they will be back in the streets again. this all about the economy. heather: what about in terms of our response near the u.s. is it too little too late? ambassador john bolton was speaking on the record. he said we messed this up. >> from the very beginning. at the very beginning two years ago when egypt got font freedom

train. what did obama do? he pulled the rug out from president mubarak without any idea what was going to happen. mohamed morsi came into power give the ballot box though in a very tricky way. what did obama do? embrace him. he came to the white house. >> the egyptians are blaming america for mohamed morsi. obama did not step in and say what are you doing when morsi tried to seize power from the parliament and the courts. now that the majority of the egyptian people said we want democracy, but this guy is not taking us to democracy, he's taking us to dictatorship again. we want to work with them. give them the assistance they need. the new interim president will help rewrite the constitution.

the military, they look like they are taking that freedom train and going in the correct direction. heather: the muslim brotherhood, they are the most cohesive group in egypt. they are not going anywhere soon. what do you expect to happen? >> the day to watch is saturday. friday, the egyptians will go to the mosques, the mosques are where the muslim brotherhood have been active the last 80 years. with the imams whoop them up and will they go to the streets again? that's when you have to watch will violence break out. this is not over. anybody who thinks the movie is over, it's not. heather: thanks for your insight. gregg? gregg: stunning new details in

the murder case again normer nhl player -- former nhl player aaron hernandez. and how place were tipped off about this evidence. heather: what happens when a massive sinkhole opens in the middle of a busy street? >> my name is bruce sykes. i'm from colorado springs, colorado. i would like to wish my friend and family back home a happy independence day.

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heather: an american imprisoned in north korea gave his first

interview likely in front of i.s. officials. he says he wants the u.s. to try harder to help him and he hoped to be released today on his father's 70th birthday. he entered korea's special economic zone as a hour operator, but he was sentenced to five years of hard labor for alleged crimes against the north korean government. gregg: new details in the murder case against aaron hernandez. police searched a condo he rented and they found what is described as a treasure trove of item that can link him to the death of odin lloyd. darrell, i have been reading your columns and we are all over

this story. i have a copy of the affidavit for the search warrant for this flophouse. there is a lot of evidence that is allegedly incriminating. >> this search warrant was obtained because of information provided to the police by carlos ortiz. he's said to be in the car with hernandez when this murder occurred. if that's true and he's providing information to the authorities that's damaging for hernandez' case. they found a white sweatshirt that matches what aaron hernandez was seen wearing as well as .45 caliber ammunition which is the same caliber that was used to kill odin lloyd. gregg: the minute they captured

ortiz we knew he was going to flip. he has a long career of conviction. but that's a downsize for prosecutors. the defense will say you can't trust anything this guy says. >> we see that in the mafia trials and now in boston with the whitey bolger trial. whenever they take the witness stand it opens up and area for defense lawyers to say he doesn't want to go to jail for this for life so he will lie. what's going on now is so important. he's talking to a grand jury. if he's being truthful for that grand jury that bodes well for the prosecution. gregg: with a nefarious flip you have always got to have corroborating evidence. as a defense attorney i have had

clients who were clever and clients who were side. aaron hernandez has to fall into the latter category. the plethora of evidence he left, this incriminating trail of evidence is quite stunning. if the evidence is to be believed, he left a huge trail behind, didn't he? >> this search warrant would suggest that. certainly the folks he's hanging around with didn't have his back the way that aaron hernandez would have thought they did. the fact that carlos ortiz led them to this condo which is 5-10 miles from aaron hernandez' house. that would suggest that maybe aaron hernandez' character judgment wasn't so great. >> they have all kinds of surveillance videotape that all but has aaron hernandez pulling the trigger. all the way down to bubble gum and probably some dna evidence

that was left behind. >> absolutely. the prosecutor said in court they basically traced his route from boston picking up odin lloyd, and to the industrial park and out of his house. four men leave aaron hernandez's house in west chester. and they have him in his own house on surveillance cameras with a gun in his hand. he installed those surveillance cameras so it boggles the mind why they were on. gregg: they also seized an suv and authorities have connected hernandez to the 2012 double murder driveby shooting. we'll leave that for another day. heather: as an attorney, since clearly it looks to be so sloppy, and there was so much

evidence left behind, could they then argue it's not premeditated then perhaps a lesser sentence? >> i don't think so. they have cell phone telephone calls that hernandez places to these two other characters in which he asks them to come to his house in the middle of the night. they then go over to the victim's house. they are seen there and that's the last you see until the body is recovered. that's got premeditation written all over it. heather: republican lawmakers searching for answers about the white house's abrupt decision to delay a key part of president obama's healthcare law. gregg: lady liberty officially reopened on the 4th of july. we are live from liberty island.

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gregg: egyptian officials reporting the muslim brotherhood supreme leader has been arrested. we are not quite clear about the circumstances surrounding this. president mohamed morsi was detained but whether charges and a full fledged arrest has been undertaken for the leader of the muslim brotherhood is unclear at this hour. we'll continue to follow the latest developments and give them to you. house republicans saying they want to investigate the obama administrations to delay a key component of the healthcare law. the white house announcing the so-called employer mandate will not take effect until 2015. it's suppose to be 2014.

john fund joins us from the "national review." one wonders whether the president has the authority to unilaterally alter a law passed by congress. this exercise of arbitrary rule if we can call it what he's doing gives an advantage to large companies which means small businesses and individuals do not get that advantage, making it inherently unfair and discriminatory. >> this obama-care law is not only a train wreck as democratic senator max baucus calls it. it's probably lawless at this point. congress passed thisin the deadf night. they didn't make pieces fit together very well. ever since then parts have been delayed. waivers have been granted to unions and other friends of the administration. now we have this law passed by congress. the administration whose policy

by blog post. it's not their decision. this law works with a whole bunch of other parts of the law. there are subsidies people are supposed to get starting next year if they want to get insurance. how in the world do we know their employer does or does not offer insurance if you are not enforcing this part of the law. this train wreck is become a nuclear explosion. gregg: i'm not sure the president has the authority to ignore a law. that would be part of the line item veto which he does not have. what angers so many americans. obama-care was originally crafted in secret. now you have got this secret deal giving certain businesses a break on top of all the favors given to obama supporters on top of the 2,000 obama-care waivers. when you look at who gets waivers. they are the unions and those who supported the president.

does the smack of -- does it smack of corruption. >> sadly it may mean the end of the rule of law. our founding fathers had a separation of powers. if the executive can literally decide what parts of a law he's going to enforce we don't have the rule of law anymore. we have the rule of men. while that sometimes may make it easier for bureaucrats, it doesn't make it easier for us. how can we predict what our businesses will look like if all this can change with one blog post before the 4th of july weekend. gregg: small businesses have said they are going to reduce hours or employees or lay off a whole lot of workers. it means millions of americans are going to lose their employer healthcare. will that together with the absolute sticker shock of double

and triple premium costs create this sort of political tsunami leading up to the mid-term elections? >> i think it will be perilous. if the system breaks down completely i guarantee there will be people in congress who say obama-care didn't work. we have to go to single pair national healthcare. that's the danger. gregg: let's put up that poll we were talking about. how does obama-care make you feel about your next future. the numbers tell the story. 66%. to compound the felony, john, taxpayers end up having more money stolen out of their wallets over there because the cbo says this delay that the president has undertaken, that's going to cost the treasury, meaning taxpayers, $10 billion. who gets to do that with the wave of a hand other sign of a

pen. >> people in congress have to investigate how this was done and take this to court. the administration cannot willy nilly decide which laws to enforce. we have to make adjustments to obama-care. they are deciding what parts work and what parts don't work and what friends will be helped. it's make it up as you go along. gregg: the gao did a study of the health exchanges which the obama administration has had three long years to set up. i got the report right here. the gao says 85% of the exchanges are behind. and, john, they are activated october 1. that's 90 days from now. the exchanges are utter chaos. >> they will bind us and prevent us from getting the healthcare we need and a lot of people are

going to lose insurance, not gain insurance. gregg: the cbo says after all of obama-care is implemented, the uninsured will never go below 30 million americans. you will always have 30 million americans uninsured after all of this. heather: it is independence day and lady liberty is opening for the first time since escaping hurricane sandy's wrath unscathed. rick, what are the plans for today? >> reporter: big plans. what better place to spend america many birthday than at the feet of this beautiful and very tall lady liberty who as you mentioned has been shut down to the public for basically two

years. you can see some folks on the observation deck on top of the base of the statue. people are actually all the way up in the crown already. you can see folks who are now walking around liberty island. this island reopening today after being shut down after hurricane sandy. it was closed back in october of 2011 to install safety features inside the statue. and they put in new elevators, a new staircase, and they reopened the statue for a single day and that's when hurricane sandy hit. and hurricane sandy did some significant damage to this 12-acre island. it tore up the sidewalks, the electrical system, some of the buildings were swamped. that too many millions of dollars and many man hours to repair. but today they reopened to the public. they have a ribbon cutting ceremony and folks are already taking advantage of it.

heather: it look like it will be a beautiful day. are people allowed inside? >> reporter: yes, but you need a ticket to get in. the tickets to the crown -- you have to reserve in advance, and i think the next available date is sometime in august to get up to the crown. you can reserve up to a year in advance. it's $3 to get up to the top. it's $17 to get on a ferry to get to the island. but then you need a special pass to get in. then you have to be in pretty good shape. you have to climb 377 steps to get up to the top of the statue of liberty. you can spend 10 minutes up there. and you have to go through security before you come to liberty island and if you are going inside the statue you have to go through another security system and leave your bags at the base. you can bring cameras to the top and medications. that's it. maybe not get together top of

the crown but certainly coming here to take a look at it. heather: when i first moved to new york it was closed to make some improvements. then opened for just one day then sandy hit. have you been to the top? you are in good shape. >> reporter: i have. thank you. i have been up there. worked up a bit of a sweat. you can see like up there at the top just below the crown, you might even be able to see people looking out through the spaces there. her right arm is 42 feet. the statue is 151 feet long. that is copper. she has a copper skin. she they cleaned it up a couple years ago. it many the thickness of two pennies, that copper skin. heather: you are full of knowledge about it. thank you so much, rick. gregg: i went up there when i was 13.

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heather: fire crews rescuing an ohio woman from a 10-foot sinkhole. her car swallowed up. she was driving down a busy street when a break in a water main created the sinkhole in the

middle of the road. rescuers take the woman to a nearby hospital. they say the hole could keep growing. gregg: a key focus at the george zimmerman murder trial, a key focus has been dna found on both men's clothing and allegedly underneath martin's finger nails or not. take a listen to this. >> the dn tax profile matched trayvon martin. there were no dna foreign to him. >> you did not find any of george zimmerman's dna there? >> there was nothing foreign to trayvon martin. gregg: zimmerman's dna is not under the fingernails of trayvon

martin. big deal or not that there is no zimmerman dna under trayvon martin's nails? >> i don't think it's such a big deal. it had to to with his knuckles. there was some testimony about his knuckles. trayvon is on top of zimmerman and he's pun. ing. nobody is talking about scratching or claw marks. you wouldn't expect to find the dna. >> certainly it's a difficult case for the prosecution. witnesses haven't gone as well and haven't testified the way -- going * it's been awful for the prosecution. >> they need some things for the jury to hang a hat on if they want to convict him. the lack of dna of george zimmerman may help. >> you are slightly sceptical of the prosecutors. i was a defense attorney i admit. and i have an inherent bias.

but let's lay it out in terms of the light most favorable for the prosecutor. you have a witness who said zimmerman didn't need to get out of the car to look for the address to call 911. he got out of the car to pursue someone he thought was suspicious. he thought the kid was suspicious because he was a black kid wearing a hoodie. not because he was looking in windows or had a flashlight to break things in. there is a 911 operator that begs him not to follow. gregg: it's a dispatcher. not a qualified police officer. the detective told the injuries he's allowed to do that. there is nothing wrong with zimmerman following martin. >> it depend on his intent. this is the kind of case i think the likelihood is most people feel it's gone much better for the defense than the prosecution by a lot. on the other hand there are

enough things there for the jury if they should decide they want to convict zimmerman to do so. they have three of the witnesses who say they saw zimmerman on top. >> i want to talk about the mother of trayvon martin. she's going to take the witness stand. our heart goes out to her. she has gone through an awful lot. she lost her son. she is going to say that's my son yelling for help. do you even cross-examine her? i don't think you do. >> that's a great point. i would probably say no. the biggest fear for the defense is those six women jurors have such sympathy for her and the pain she felt they don't want to give her more pain. gregg: get her off the stand as quick as you can. >> they won't gain anything from her. there is enough there for the defense to argue in their

summations. gregg: the defense has their own witnesses to say it's zimmerman's voice. arthur aidala wearing that incredible tie. it's a great tie. it's just an embarrassment on you. >> i was born at the for the hamilton army base. my father served in the army. don't give me a hard time. heather: arthur, i love it. celebrating independence day, colonel oliver north standing by with what our troops overseas are doing today. gregg: remembering one of the bloodiest battles in history. we are live with how some have commemorating today. the great outdoors...

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brotherhood. gregg: a highway sign in florida turning some heads. the word "florida" misspelled not once, but surprise. >> for some reason it was misspelled at the plant. it came down here and that's when we noticed it. because obviously it's easier to catch a mistake when it's on the ground than after you put it up. the spelling was correct in the plans sent to the manufacturer. >> if you say it fast enough you don't hear the "i" in florida. it cost $.3 million for the

signs. but the manufacturer says it will foot the bill to fix it. that much money for signs? heather: independence day. at times you remember the sacrifices others have made to insure the freedoms we enjoy here today. colonel oliver north is streaming live for us from kabul with how some troops are celebrating today. >> we went to a great ceremony today. a wonderful ceremony of a naturalization for americans. 37 of them who joined the armed forces of the united states and are now american citizens of the country. they donned the uniform to defend. it was a powerful ceremony, the kind of thing you love to see. and the american tradition done on independence day when they became american citizens. just take a look at some of what we saw today.

heather: we are having some technical issues there. but clearly the troops in afghanistan, colonel oliver north was there and he was able to speak with them about independence day and their thoughts with their families i'm sure back here in america. but i think we can toss back to colonel north now who has a guest with him. is that correct? >> i have got a united states army staff sergeant, rudy flores who is from the same town i am, san antonio, texas. he was reenlisted today by whom? >> nor john mccain. >> obviously a great privilege. >> it was an honor. >> independence day means what to you? >> it's a time top reflect on the sacrifices our military

veterans have made throughout our nation's history and just show gold glory and our pride. >> no fireworks here because if the fireworks come with a siren in front of them. anybody at home you would like to say hi to? >> i would like to say hi to my wife and kids, daddy will be home soon. heather: that is what independence day is all about. gregg: it's certainly well said. new reaction out of the white house after egypt's first democratically elected president gets ousted from power in a military coup. the latest. for a strong bag that grips the can... get glad forceflex. small change, big difference. backflips and cartwheels.mile? love, warmth. here, try this. backflips and camm, ok!s.mile?

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heather: a fox news alert and america's relationship with a critical ally on shaky ground. egypt, a country that gets billions of dollars in u.s. aid is ousted in a bloody revolution. while the leader of the party he represented is arrested a short time later. welcome to a brand-new hour of "america's newsroom." and happy independence day. gregg: i'm gregg jarrett in for bill. president obama says he's deeply concerned about egypt's abrupt change in leadership after the

military ousted morsi. while some call this a coup, the president didn't go that far and some say there is a reason for it. wendall goarl is live at the white house. what is the president's reaction? >> the president said he was concerned but he wasn't critical. in a carefully worded statement he says i call on the egyptian military to move quickly and responsibly to return full authority back to a democratically elected civilian government as soon as possible through an inclusive and transparent process. the president met yesterday for an hour and a half with the secretary of defense and chairman of the joint chiefs of staff as events in cairo unfolded. mr. obama urged egyptian officials not to arrest president morsi or his supporters but the muslim brotherhood supreme leader has been arrested for the killing of a number of protesters outside

his headquarters. president obama said i have directed the appropriate agencies to review our aid to egypt. but he didn't refer to what happened in egypt as a coup that would trigger the suspension of u.s. aid. the muslim brotherhood had through friend on capitol hill. so morsi's removal is being seen as a second chance for a democratic egypt. house majority leader eric cantor of virginia said quote the egyptian people have made clear that president morsi's muslim brotherhood government has threatened the democracy. democracy is about more than elections.

met * at least 39 people have died since those protests began back on june 30. thank you, wendall. gregg: in the meantime the military is moving swiftly in the hours since taking power. egyptian officials saying they arrested the top leader of the muslim brotherhood along with his deputy. the two are being accused in the killings of 8 protesters this week. conor powell streaming life. is the new government taking shape in some form or fashion? >> reporter: today there was a ceremony that swore in the new president adly mansour. he's a chief justice of the constitutional court. the previously drafted islamist constitution has been suspended. man our says he wants to hold elections in line with the spirit of the revolution. man our is a long-time era judge

and has close ties to the military. we are also hearing mohammed el-bardei has a lot of international name recognition but he does not have a lot of support in egypt. but he has shown a willingness to work with the military and has international support. but elbardei is not someone who will iewn fine muslim groups. it's setting up a lot of divisions that already existed but now will be intensified. we are hearing reports of how much more violence we'll see in the coming days. gregg: how is the muslim

brotherhood responding to all of this? >> they remain defiant today. they issued a statement saying that this coup, this military coup will push some of the members towards violence. they are also calling the military sue surpers and saying they will not work with them. senior members of the muslim brotherhood have been arrested. there are arrest warrants for dozens more. we are getting reports of clashes between the military and the muslim brotherhood. 14 people have been killed since last night. hundreds more injured. we expect a lot more violence as the muslim brotherhood tries to figure out how to respond to this military coup. gregg: conor powell live in cairo, egypt. heather: egypt's problems with president morsi developed pretty quickly as he was ousted after spending just 375 days in office. egypt's constitution inspired by the principles of sharia law had been in force for less than 200

days with at least 20% of egypt's 80 million people turning out for the protest that eventually led to morsi's downfall. gregg: syrian president bashar al-asaad bragging he's still in power and his enemies have failed to overthrow him. assad denies what's been happening in this country over the past two years, the revolution there. rather he says western nations have conspired to destabilize the nation by backing rebel fighters. in the meantime opposition leaders are meeting in turkey to elect new leadership. heather: a fierce battle going on to stop the wildfire that killed 19 elite firefighters. authorities in arizona say the yarnell fire is now 45% contained. the fire commander praised the hundreds of firefighters still

on the front lines. >> i'm pleased to say we had a really successful day. the hard work everybody put into this is paying off. heather: will, we won't know the entire toll of this wild fire for a while, right? >> that's right. the big concern that more people could potentially be dead. when this fire hit hundreds of people evacuated the area but some people chose to stay and they ended up staying in some of the hardest hit areas of this fire. authorities tell us they won't know if those people survived until they are able to get in there and go home to home. at the same time the fire is now 45% contained. it's a huge jump from yesterday because of some rain that hit the area that's helping the firefighters on the front line. it's also helping the investigators who have come in from across the country to try to figure out what went so tragically wrong.

it should be 60 days before they can tell everybody exactly what weren't wrong. heather: how is the community doing there? >> reporter: well, this is still just a gut-wrenching tragedy for this community. i'm standing in front of a memorial right next to the prescott fire department. people for the last couple days have walked up to this memorial and stopped to pay silent tribute to these firefighters. there was a long procession of vehicles that these hotshots drove. they brought those out of the front lines from the fire and at the same time firefighters all across the area, even those on the front lines stopped to take a moment of violence. rue * it affects everybody. and we all realize that. and acknowledge it. and it makes this fire much different than the other fires we fight. and i think people really want to put this thing to bed and get

rid of it. >> this community is continuing to rally. they have had vigils. yesterday they found out they will be able to have funerals. that will be july 9. so hopefully that will continue to offer this community closure. >> the jar nell fire is deadly and destructive. so far 8,400 acres have burned and it caused $2.5 million in damage. if the flames destroyed 129 buildings. many of them are homes. >> he refused to step down even after his own people begged him to. now egyptian president mohamed morsi is out of a job. we'll look at the dramatic shift in popularity for the country's first democratically elected president. gregg: more questions about the

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heather: severe storms taking a heavy toll in tallahassee, florida knock out power and bringing down trees. a tree fell on a car and trapped the people inside. one man saw the whole thing happen. >> i thought it was a tornado. i ran out on my porch. the trees were blowing over hard. it was like slow motion. the tree came down right on top of the car. charactered by lightning. heather: witnesses say the passenger was able to climb out the window and rescue crews helped save the other driver. gregg: a fox news alert. the critical u.s. ally of egypt undergoes a major change in leadership. a massive revolution, a military takeover. it leeferl the country's first

democratically elected president out of a job and under house arrest. while president morsi may have won the popular vote when he took office buff it seep the last year his popularity has waynee --popularity has waned ad abroad. i read your column saying "the egyptian military has done us all a favor." explain why you think so. >> the thing is, the way egypt was going under president morsi was not looking good. basically the country adopted sharia law, the economy was turning into a basket case. the islamists were getting more and more influential. and apart from oppressing the egyptian prime minister. it looked like the emergence of

an egypt that would not be friendly to the west. by the military taking over. locking up morsi and arresting leading members of the muslim brotherhood, i think the army has done us all a big favor. gregg: you point out the economic conditions cratered when the muslim brotherhood took the helm in egypt. unemployment ballooned from 8% to 13%, gdp flat lined, dropping in half. long gas lines. blackouts. the economy was mismanaged. is that because islamist governments may be effective political organizations but they know nothing about economics and marketplaces and how to govern. >> it's tempting to draw that conclusion. if you look at the origins of the egyptian revolution two years ago. the reason the people took to the tahrir square in the first

place was because of the dire state of the economy. he and his officials were deemed to be corrupt. they were taking moth the money for themselves and their families and it wasn't going to the people. they wanted a new government that would address the economy. president morsi -- he started off with goodwill. he tried to put together a government of national iew nati. but the government was more interested in pursuing it islamist agenda than the economy. gregg: the non-muslim groups were marginal eyed and punish -- were margi march -- were margind and punished. president obama viewed morsi and

the muslim brotherhood as potential partners. was that until i shall and naive? >> i think it was. last night i was talking to british prime minister david cameron asking for his view of what's going on in cairo. he said they thought they should give the muslim brotherhood a chance because the majority of egyptians are moderate muslims. the muslim brotherhood should be given a chance. but they clearly have blown it. certainly in recent months with the introduction of sharia law, the repression of women. the way egypt was going it was not looking good. you might even say it was looking like a new iran in africa. from our own perspective in washington and london, this is not what we want, we want an egypt we can work with, not an egypt that is against the west. gregg: the united states gives $1.6 billion a year to egypt. $1.3 billion goes directly to

the military. since the military is in charge and london also gives a great deal of money to the egyptians. should western nations including america and great britain use that aid to leverage something, for example, an orderly restoration to a civilian government? >> right. i expect people in america have been using that money to persuade the military to act. i don't think the military did what they did without some kind of international encouragement for starters. and i think the difficulty now is where does egypt go from here? the two best organized institutions in egypt today are the military and the muslim brotherhood. the muslim brotherhood is now out of the picture. the leaders are being arrested. morsi is in army custody. but who replaces them?

are there people -- you mentioned mohammed elbardei. does he have the support in the country to form an effective leadership? these are the questions. rather than giving into the islamists. it's time to have a reality check and look at who is a feasible candidate with a more western oriented agenda, and give them our pack and hopefully they can get into power. glenn: many thanks, good to see you. thanks. heather: it's been almost two months since we learned the irs was improperly targeting conservative groups seeking tax exempt status. the fbi hasn't spoken to a single victim since their investigation began. greg * an update on two american teenagers lost at sea after the boat they were on apparently

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heather: a tribute to true american heroism has more than 10,000 reenactors began day one of a four-day reenactment of the pivotal civil war battle in gettysburg pennsylvania. it has been 150 years. live for us in gettysburg with more. so set the scene for us today. >> this the remarkable scene on a private farm 5 miles outside of gettysburg. this is a little bit like woodstock of civil war reenactment. behind me use of the 19th century setting. panning off to the right, you can see what a small portion of the crowd gathering. probably 13,000 reenactors along here. expecting to reenactments. another one at 6:00 p.m.

continuing throughout the holiday weekend with all kinds of exhibits and demonstrations. a pretty remarkable thing with these reenactors. we spoke to one person yesterday, a guy talking about their commitment to this. >> would make a big deal today of honoring our vets. the vietnam vets. the grandkids are alive. we do that to honor their memory. to do honor to their memory we try to listen as closely to the conditions they lived and worked in. >reporter: keep in mind, these reenactors are dressed in wool

to be authentic. we have to watch out. heather: that is what i was going to ask you, they thrive for authenticity in the way they look, their hair, uniforms they wear. reporter: that is so true. there's a recent story i publication i read this week of a guy who bought a $25,000 canon. you mentioned coming home saying i bought myself the $25,000 canon. no practical value except these things. but they do strive for authenticity. if a civil war soldier were to pop out of his grave and show up at one of these encampments he would recognize every single component and what is in it and for what purpose it serves. we will bring you this reenactment live. heather: day one. thank you.

gregg: here is some serious question over the president's decision to delay a major part of his health care law and whether decision that is supposed to help small businesses may have been motivated by something else. actually larger business. heather: one young man taking scouts honor to a whole new level. take a look at that looking at the eagle scout who just earned every single badge that exists. >> hello, from afghanistan. inmate states army. i want to wish everyone a happy fourth of july, especially sylvia. the great outdoors...

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heather: growing questions about the obama administration's decision to delay the health care law. employethe employer mandate wile postponed a full year until after the 2014 midterm stunning

washington. listen to what a former director of the congressional budget office had to say. >> this was a stunner. there were many reports of implementation being behind federal, concerns of exchange is not being ready to go. not a whisper of dropping the employer mandate, and when the news came out it was far from quiet. heather: former advisor to president bill clinton. monica crowley a fox news host. thank you for joining us. >> happy holiday. heather: administration delaying the so-called employer mandate that requires medium and large companies to provide coverage for their workers or face fines. reason is to give more time to get ready. the move also delays the mandate until after the midterm election. so, monica, policy or politics

in play here? monica: i think the answer, heather, is pretty obvious. look, they were hearing from businesses frankly of all sizes of how disastrous obamacare is. now that everybody is focusing on what it will mean for their business and for them individually, people are starting to grow concerned and very worried about this. so businesses were reporting already they are starting to cut back hours, lay off workers. this have affect on the bottom line in terms of higher taxes and higher costs and fees. the white house was hearing this saying this is only going to grow worse the concern and problems going into next year's midterm so let's put it off until after the midterm election and then we can deal with it. heather: what you think of that? democrats are defending 21 senate seats.

the house has voted 35 times since taking control of the chamber in 2011 to repeal or the fund all or parts of obamacare. and this fox news poll since 2010 the percentage of americans who think all or some of the health care law should be repealed has steadily increased. now 58%. registered voters did is is an attempt by democrats to gain seats in the midterm election? doug: i don't know the democrats will gain seats. probably designed as monica was suggesting to minimize the losses, to hold the senate. i would make a slightly different play, heather. the onus is on republicans. the democrats are playing politics by delaying the mandate as i believe they were, certainly in part if not totally, republicans have the onus not just to appeal

obamacare over and over and over, but to push policies of their own, which they have been notably silent on. what is their alternative? on the fourth of july we ought to talk about positive solutions rather than just attacking. monica: i think republicans over the course of this debate over the last several years have put out market solutions to health care reform. this debate started four or five years ago, nobody said the system didn't need reform, the question was how to reform it. they put out market-based and consumer-based solutions to try to fix the problems. but instead this administration and the democratic party went with socialized medicine and now it is collapsing under its own weight. heather: democrats are defending this decision. among them, nancy pelosi defending this and that it would not significantly impair the law

saying only 4% of u.s. businesses would be affected anyways by the mandate and other parts of the law would be unaffected. this is my question to you. is that fair that employers get a pass or a delay, but individuals and small companies don't? >> that is what i was going to say. the large businesses in america are getting a pass, the individual mandate does go forward which means 401,400,000,000 americans not covered by health insurance pln through their business, they are going to have to go out to these health exchanges with her in the process of being formed and not fully taking shape. they have to go through the estate or federal system, that is a murky system.

while statistically speaker pelosi is correct, as a political matter this is another challenge that could pose problems for the democrats. heather: you are right. we will have a shiva survives over the next year or so. everything a person in america will have to prove to the irs to have government sanctions and group health insurance. heather: that is true. have to go, have to leave it there. thank you for joining us, and happy independence. monica: happy independence day. doug: same to you. gregg: how about it. the party of the year in the nation's capital. final preps underway right now. molly is live out on the national mall. reporter: 237 years ago the continental congress approved or adopted the declaration of independence, today hundreds of thousands of people will come to the national mall for a parade,

concert, fireworks all part of the celebrations. behind the scenes lot of people working very hard on their fourth of july to keep everybody safe. sergeant brooks, tell me one of the main changes has been putting everybody through an access point to get onto the mall, why is that so important? >> yes, we have nine access points, we changed our policies and procedures. everybody who comes down to enjoy this event today have to go through one of these access points, have their bags, coolers checked. report back tell us about the technology you are using today. >> it is a technology that worked fantastic. easy to sign up for what that enables people to do is receive the latest alerts and

notifications. an example may be impending weather situation. the public will be notified as well as an access point closed, something like that. all you do is text the word "july 4 dc" in your signed up free of charge and will receive notifications. reporter: are telling people to take a real-time photo of their child, why is that? >> just in the event you should become separated from your child, everybody has the opportunity to take a quick cell phone photo of your child so it will assist us. reporter: thank you for joining us. can you s show us the picture of the monument? the earthquake two years ago, they're still trying to stabilize it so people can enjoy

it. back to you in the studio. gregg: even with scaffolding it is a spectacular sight to see. molly, think very much live at the nation's mall. heather: still to come, embattled lawmaker saying she will talk about the scandal swirling around her agency but her testimony comes with a price tag. we will take a look at what she wants in return, and if it is something lawmakers will even consider. gregg: one man takes matters into his own hands to catch a criminal. unique skill set that helped him wrangle a would-be burglar. >> shattered glass all over the place. here it is just like oh, god.

heather: welcome back. as suspected burglar got more than he bargained for trying to rob an oklahoma family.

the homeowner waited for the suspect to leave his garage and then ambushed him. within seconds hogtied on the front lawn with his hands and feet ropes together behind his back. the man's wife witnessed the confrontation. >> what was going through your mind? >> that's my man. i was really proud of him. >> just the type of person he is, business is business, he is safe, the police are coming, i have to go. heather: she went on to say her husband not really into rodeo but he works with horses. clearly knows his way around a rope. taking care of business. gregg: absolutely. congratulations. wants to talk to you now about some of the new developments. and the investigation of the irs targeting conservatives. the attorney for the former

agency says she will testify before congress but only if granted immunity. you will remember she played the 550-foot house oversight committee after making a statement declaring her innocence did >> decided to follow my counsel's advice and not testify or answer any questions today. because i'm certain my right not to testify some will assume i did something wrong. i have not. one of the basic functions is to protect innocent individuals and that is the production i am invoking today. gregg: attempt to protect guilty people, but i digested correctly on paid leave after refusing to resign. if fox news contributor. happy independence day, thank you for being with us. it was a no-brainer. ever since she took the fifth when you eventually she and her

lawyer would be angling for immunity. the question i suppose now is the kind of immunity that would be offered here, she would love to have full immunity. i suspect the committee would rather give limited immunity, what's you think? >> she got off on the wrong foot in the beginning because she made kind of a lengthy proclamation of her innocence and said i will not answer any questions. a lot of republicans felt she actually waived her right to not answer questions by making that statement of innocence and the committee voted on party lines on a resolution saying she had waived that. what i am told this morning is her lawyers have not actually approached the house yet, but what will happen if they approach the house, they will all get together in a meeting and say what you say does not go

beyond this room, but if she were given immunity she would testify to this and this and this. the house will say either that sounds good or that is not enough, you don't get immunity. gregg: a lawyer says you can't use any of this but here is for my client and sometimes they literally have the client engaging q and a. it is tricky stuff because if you grant limited immunity, you will recall prosecuted nevertheless. but me go to something else, the justiceg announcement we are launching a criminal investigation and the fbi director gets up in front of congress when asked who heads or investigation, he fumbles, mumbles, stumbles and in the end says "i don't know." and there is this from the lawyer who represents the

conservative groups, take a listen. >> the fpi knows we filed a lawsuit, the contact information, where to find them, not one of them in over a month now looking at six weeks has been contacted for this investigation. gregg: of a beginning to wonder if there is a criminal investigation? >> that was a really embarrassing moment not even knowing who is doing this high-profile alleged investigation. they are taking this into account as they think about immunity because there is always a conflict, a conflict between the kind of information you want to get out to the public at the public hearings in the kind of information that would compromise a criminal investigation. if republicans believe the obama justice department is going to drag its feet and not pursue a criminal investigation, republicans will be more

motivated to get everything out in public so at least people know what happened. gregg: he appears under oath before congress and he is hearing nothing, seeing nothing, he couldn't explain his own investigation, could he? >> as republicans face this problem they think how can we debate through this. if the justice department is not going to pursue it and the irs cannot investigate itself, what can we as republicans who control the house of representatives do here? that is where immunity may come in. they can find one person who would speak from the inside as to what happened, they could possibly get to the bottom of this. if they don't do that, there's a possibility they will never come out. gregg: happy independence day, thank you for being with us.

>> thank you. heather: still to come, what does an eagle scout to after earning every single merit badge available? we will find out next wednesday to this teenager who is one of the only scouts effort to achieve that honor. >> hi, i am private alexander from the third infantry regiment. i want to give a shout out to my friends and family back home. happy fourth of july. dad. how did you get here? i don't know. [ speaking in russian ] look, look, look... you probably want to get away as much as we do. with priceline express deals, you can get a fabulous hotel without bidding. think of the rubles you'll save. with one touch, fun in the sun. i like fun. well, that went exactly as i planned.. really? now save up to 60% during summer hotel sale. use code "summer" on priceline's.

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gregg: an amazing story of survival and sacrifice out of china. the dramatic rescue of a baby caught on camera following a deadly landslide. mothers being deemed a hero.

using her own body to shield the baby for some seven long hours as the house toppled all around them. in the end, the grandmother died, trapped beneath it. heather: a rare achievement to recognize this independence day. eagle scout patrick earned every possible merit badge. only about 200 other scouts actually hold that honor since the boy scouts increase the number of merit badges to 135. only 11 others have earned as many. patrick, 138 badges, i see you have them all on you right now. was it ever your goal to earn all of them? >> no. i wanted to get eagle when i was younger because that meant leadership, when i got eagle young, i earned three months and

five additional merit badges. last year i earned 90 some merit badges i thought why not, go win them all. heather: those of us who are not scouts, how do you earn a merit badge, explain the process. >> first of all you get a pamphlet and you get a packet, so of questions on it, take fingerprinting, learn the history of fingerprinting, different things about what fingerprinting does, or archery, take archery, should a certain score, something like that. on the parts of the bow and arrow. make an arrow. take care of the equipment. heather: you do a little research and the goals you have to accomplish. which badge was the most difficult for you to earn? >> if you consider time, money

and just skill i would probably say scuba diving. it costs the most money of all of my merit badges. three weeks of going under the water being certified, was definitely one of the harder ones. heather: what about the most fun was the easiest to earn. >> the easiest merit badge would have been fingerprinting. i think every scout i know has that badge. most fun would be water sports. i was wake boarding in carlsbad lagoon. i have been snowboarding in big bear. both a blast. heather: what else is there to accomplish, what is your next goal? >> right now i'm at a boy scout

ranch, i have eight different leads under me who have their own areas and i take care of them making sure they have everything they need, doing all of that. after that i will go to new jersey to be a theater major, theater performance. heather: crate. thank you so much for joining us. you're an inspiration for young people. patrick barnsley, thank you. and happy independence day. >> thank you very much. happy fourth of july. gregg: that is really impressive. heather: what was your favorite badge? gregg: i did like the mile swim around catalina island. i remember that one. that is about the only one i can remember. heather: you should get a badge for working with me every weekend. gregg: that would be priceless. heather: that would be the easiest one to earn and the most fun. gregg: absolutely would be. edward is noted running out of

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gregg: a rare find from on the revolutionary war heroes. they found 11 lost letters from captain john paul jones, whose father was known for taunting the british i have not yet begun to fight.

the letters detailed his work equipped in the navy. found just in time for independence day. heather: have a great day. heading to a cookout and watching fireworks? gregg: of the lobster. "happening now" begins now. >> brand-new stories and breaking news. >> egypt swears in an new president after military leaders out mohammed morsi. what is next for americans key ally in the middle east? plus the evidence in the murder case against nfl star aaron hernandez. a typical leading police to an apartment he was renting. what investigators found. and new video of a sinkhole so big, is swallowed a car. it is all "happening now." ♪